Long War 1591–1606

[ 1591 - 1606 ]

The Long War or Thirteen Years' War was an indecisive land war between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire and the client states of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia. It was waged from 1593 to 1606 but in Europe is sometimes called the Fifteen Years War, reckoning from the 1591-92 Turkish campaign that captured Bihac.

In the series of Ottoman wars in Europe it was the major test of force between Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and the Cretan War (1645–69). The next of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars was the Great Turkish War of 1683-99. Overall, the conflict consisted in a great number of costly battles and sieges, but with very little result for both sides.